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Fisherman   /fˈɪʃərmˌæn/  /fˈɪʃərmən/   Listen
noun
Fisherman  n.  (pl. fishermen)  
1.
One whose occupation is to catch fish.
2.
(Naut.) A ship or vessel employed in the business of taking fish, as in the cod fishery.





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"Fisherman" Quotes from Famous Books



... would have been severe with him, and when one is sharp it is a pleasure to outwit him. The boys had carried off some gates shortly before, and they had changed the sign of the Jolly Fisherman to Friend Reed's coffin shop, and he never knew it the whole morning and wondered why people stared. Both boys were soundly caned for it, and after all it was only a bit of fun. So then they kept their own counsel. Jonas knows such pages ...
— A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia • Amanda Minnie Douglas
... very same—the grey rocks rising one above another, the broad white shore, and the lonely cottage, with the dark storm-clouds lowering above it, and the fisherman's bride at the window, pale and anxious, her sunny hair falling about her shoulders as she peered far out across the sea—the black, storm-tossed sea—and far out among the billows the tiny speck of sail that ...
— Beth Woodburn • Maud Petitt
... A fisherman of the same town—the town to which the lifeboat that had gone to the rescue of the phantom ship belonged—told me, when I was out with him one evening in his boat, that one of the oldest inhabitants of the place had on one occasion, when the phantom ship ...
— Byways of Ghost-Land • Elliott O'Donnell
... for the support of himself and the other French removed from Lancaster except in the article of Firing and House Room, and is likewise willing that two of his sons be placed out in Families and inasmuch as the Petitioner is by employment a Fisherman, which cannot be exercised at Lancaster, therefore, Ordered that he have liberty to reside in the Town of Weymouth until this Court shall otherwise order, and the Selectmen of said Town are impowered to place two of his sons in English families for a reasonable term and to provide House Room for ...
— The Bay State Monthly - Volume 1, Issue 4 - April, 1884 • Various
... my enthusiasm as a fisherman for that day. The net was set, however, which later yielded us some trout. A fish planked on a dry spruce log hewn flat on one side, made a delicious dinner, and a savory kettle of fish chowder made of trout and dried onions gave ...
— The Long Labrador Trail • Dillon Wallace


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